hello friends, I'm looking into buying a 1986 mercury grand marquis park colony station wagon
with 111,000 miles from my neighbor. It has fuel injection which gives it about 20 mpg which is about the same as the 99 Cadillac Seville SLS I currently drive and would be switching out

I go on lots of long trips and the caddy just isn't cutting it as far as seating and room goes. I feel like the station wagon would be a nice alternative to a minivan! But people keep telling me not to go for it, and that the car may have been built to withstand long trips in 1986, but is much more adept to giving out in the year of Our Lord 2017.

Am I making a bad decision? Will the marquis wagon give me what I need for another hundred or even couple hundred thousand miles? Am I wasting my time on old technology and worn out designs? Let me know what you think!

Was talking to a friend about ideas for inexpensive ways of putting woodgrain on the wagon when I floated the idea of using Plastidip to paint a faux finish, to which my friend instantly suggested using inexpensive wood grain contact paper and coating it with clear plastidip instead.

The miser in me wants to believe this would work. The realist thinks this would be a colossal cheap looking mess. What are your thoughts?

I have a dream that one day this page will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all wagons are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the car pages of Facebook, the believers of Function and the followers of Form will be able to sit down together at the table of Respect.

I have a dream that one day even the page of VW Vortex, a place sweltering with the heat of intolerance, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of guidance and discussion

I have a dream that my four little children will ride in the back of their fathers Scion xB and not be judged because it's taller and not as long as the other wagons, even though it has all the same features and character.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day, over in Ocean City, Maryland with its vicious police, with its Mayor having his lips dripping with the words of "equipment safety" and "reckless driving" -- one day right there in Maryland an owner of a static slammed Passat Wagon with -8 degrees camber and replica BBS wheels can converse respectfully with an owner of a Volvo 240 GL with an LS1 swap and fully stripped and caged interior

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made smooth, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the wagon shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it triumph over the crossovers."